What is a god?

[Purple Rabbit]

The problem of evil has been my biggest obstacle for the same reasons.

If I may, CR, I think that the problem there is that you look at evil backwards as far as mankind and God are concerned.

God can't simply remove evil at his whim because mankind is lord over their own planet under the influence of Satan. They have rejected God and chose evil. They continue to do that.

Mankind isn't almighty, your god is claimed to be so. Try your argument on kid cancer. Then kid cancer is not caused by what medical science finds but by the kid self (or even worse, by it's parents). That is both cruel and morally abject. Imho it is evil even to suggest so. On top of the cruelty is the negation of medical science and all of it has done to cure patients in the absense of an almighty god (if man can cure, what's holding back god?). Something to think about when you end up in some hospital and you are left to medical science, an event that will happen to most of us eventually.